Gas Chambers – The 'Humane' Alternative?
A Meat and Dairy Industries Article from All-Creatures.org

FROM

Shimon Shuchat, TheirTurn.net
July 2016

Undercover footage shows pigs screaming, thrashing and gasping for air in their final moments. “In their last minutes, these pigs are burning from the inside out.”

“Aversive behavior ['broiler' chickens] in the form of gasping, shaking of heads and stretching of necks to breathe could be seen beginning in window two [of the gas chamber] and, by window three, all were exhibiting strong convulsions.

According to a former worker at a supplier to Eggland’s Best: “It’s absolutely chilling to hear these birds [spent hens] scrambling and fighting for air in these gas chambers.” 

Following numerous undercover investigations revealing shocking cruelty in slaughterhouses, the meat industry has shifted towards a method of killing animals that is regarded by many as being less inhumane — gas chambers.

Gassing animals, euphemistically referred to as controlled atmosphere killing (CAK), is becoming an increasingly common method of killing animals in the food industry. In Australia and some European countries, CAK is already used to slaughter pigs, chickens and other animals.

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Pigs

In order to gas pigs, slaughterhouse workers use electric prods to force them into small steel cages which are lowered into carbon dioxide filled chambers. Undercover footage shows pigs screaming, thrashing and gasping for air in their final moments. An Australian activist conducting an undercover investigation described what he saw: “In their last minutes, these pigs are burning from the inside out.”

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Broiler Chickens

The travelling crates that contain chickens are typically unloaded from a truck onto a conveyor belt which carries them into a gas chamber. According to an eyewitness from Canadians for the Ethical Treatment of Food Animals, “Aversive behavior in the form of gasping, shaking of heads and stretching of necks to breathe could be seen beginning in window two [of the gas chamber] and, by window three, all were exhibiting strong convulsions. The birds’ movements eventually became still and by the time they emerged from the CO2 chambers they were completely lifeless…”

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Egg-laying hens

Workers aggressively grab spent layer hens birds out of their cages and toss them into mobile metal gas chambers. On some factory farms, the hens are simply stuffed into trash cans where they are gassed. According to a former worker at a supplier to Eggland’s Best: “It’s absolutely chilling to hear these birds scrambling and fighting for air in these gas chambers.”

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